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Julian Assange has developed a serious heart and lung conditions after two years’ confinement at the Ecuadorian embassy, it has been claimed.
Supporters want the fugitive Wikileaks founder to leave the London building for hospital treatment, but complain he will be arrested if he tries to do so.
They say after being unable to go outside and living in an air-conditioned atmosphere, the Australian anti-secrecy campaigner is suffering from arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, a chronic cough and high blood pressure.

A news website says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange regards his bid to become an Australian senator as a defense against potential criminal prosecution in the United States and Britain.
Assange spoke to The Conversation website at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he was granted asylum in June to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crime allegations.
If he wins a Senate seat at elections on Sept. 24, Assange told the website in an article published on Monday that the U.S. Department of Justice would drop its espionage investigation rather than risk a diplomatic row.

In the seven years since he founded WikiLeaks, Julian Assange's relationships with a number of his former collaborators and supporters have broken down, with each side variously claiming broken promises or bad faith on the part of the other.

LONDON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sowed confusion Monday with an announcement that appeared to indicate he was leaving his embassy bolt hole, but his spokesman later clarified that that would not happen unless the impasse over his extradition were resolved.

A year ago, Julian Assange skipped out on a date with Swedish justice. Rather than comply with a British order that he go to the Scandinavian country for questioning about sex crimes allegations, the WikiLeaks founder took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London.
He’s still there – and now says he won’t emerge even if Sweden drops the case that triggered the strange diplomatic standoff.

It is an odd sight: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wearing a jacket and tie, but no shoes. Then again, if you have not stepped outside Ecuador's London embassy for a year, shoes are largely pointless.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange told Australian media that NSA whistleblower and leaker Edward Snowden has not been interviewed by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) or any other Russian intelligence agency during his seven weeks in Russia,

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday he is considering requesting asylum in Switzerland and basing the whistleblowing website in the fiercely neutral Alpine country."That is a real possibility," Assange said when asked in an interview with Swiss TV station TSR about whether he and the website might relocate to Switzerland.He said Switzerland, and perhaps Iceland, were the only Western countries that his outfit feels safe in.